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5 >DECB Binaries</TITLE
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36 ><TR
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39 ALIGN="center"
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40 >LW Tool Chain</TH
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41 ></TR
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47 ><A
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49 ACCESSKEY="P"
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50 >Prev</A
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51 ></TD
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56 >Chapter 2. Output Formats</TD
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57 ><TD
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61 ><A
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77 >2.2. DECB Binaries</A
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80 >A DECB binary is compatible with the LOADM command in Disk Extended
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81 Color Basic on the CoCo. They are also compatible with CLOADM from Extended
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82 Color Basic. These binaries include the load address of the binary as well
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83 as encoding an execution address. These binaries may contain multiple loadable
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84 sections, each of which has its own load address.</P
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85 ><P
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86 >Each binary starts with a preamble. Each preamble is five bytes long. The
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87 first byte is zero. The next two bytes specify the number of bytes to load
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88 and the last two bytes specify the address to load the bytes at. Then, a
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89 string of bytes follows. After this string of bytes, there may be another
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90 preamble or a postamble. A postamble is also five bytes in length. The first
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91 byte of the postamble is $FF, the next two are zero, and the last two are
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92 the execution address for the binary.</P
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93 ><P
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94 >Both LWASM and LWLINK can output this format.</P
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95 ></DIV
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114 >Prev</A
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123 >Home</A
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140 >Output Formats</TD
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145 ><A
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148 >Up</A
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154 >ASCII Hexadecimal</TD
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